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Mr Gabriel Appertey, Assembly Member for North Dawhenya Electoral Area, has called on the Ghana Highways Authority to as a matter of urgency rehabilitate the Afienya Junction road linking Dawhenya to Afienya in the Ningo-Prampram District. He said drivers, who dodge deep potholes on the road, especially when negotiating the Tema-Aflao highway to join the Dawhenya-Afienya stretch, resulting in accidents. Mr Apperty in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dawenya, said vehicles veered from their lanes into other portions of the road, and others had broken down at the junction, causing inconvenience to other road users, including pedestrians. Mr Apperty said that he had mobilized the youth in the area to fill the potholes at the junction, which does not last because heavy tipper trucks that carry gravels from a quarry located between Dawhenya and Afienya use the road. He appealed to Falcol Roads Limited, which is currently constructing the five-mile Dawhenya-Afienya road, to water the road daily to prevent the dusty condition there. The project, which is being funded by the Government of Ghana, started early this year with the construction of gutters from the Afienya end of the road. The GNA learned that on April 26, 2011, a tipper truck loaded with gravels crushed to death a student of the Central University College, and a kenkey seller, as well as injured about five people when the truck was joining the Tema-Aflao road at the Afienya-junction. Some taxi drivers plying the road have threatened to boycott the December polls if roads in the area, especially, the Afienya junction, are not repaired. Mr Enoch Kofi Otoo, a taxi driver, complained about the nature of roads in the area, and called on the authorities to rehabilitate them.